Sharlto Copley

In person she has a big, Texas-girl laugh and an agreeable manner, yet Margo Martindale’s splashiest roles, Emmy-winners like backwoods crime boss Mags on TV’s “Justified” and the ex- KGB supervisor Claudia on “The Americans,” are shiveringly sinister. Then along comes “The Hollars,” a four-tissue weeper directed by actor John Krasinski, and Martindale proves that she’s just as effective a scene-stealer when she’s playing a selfless, sweet-faced Midwestern housewife named Sally Hollar.

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Writer-director Neill Blomkamp's robot film "Chappie" is powering up for what looks like a slow weekend at the box office.
The movie, which opens wide in the U.S. this weekend, generated $750,000 in ticket sales from Thursday night showings,...

"Chappie" is a movie about the evolution of artificial intelligence that's as dumb as a post. It also marks the continuing devolution of the work of director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp.
Blomkamp's first feature, "District 9," was...

In "Maleficent," the iconic Disney sorceress finally gets to tell her side of the "Sleeping Beauty" story — while being played by Angelina Jolie, no less. So how does she fare?
While critics are giving mixed reviews to the film and...

She is the meanest woman ever to get her own plush toy.
Maleficent, the wicked fairy from "Sleeping Beauty" who condemns the infant Princess Aurora to die, is the protagonist of a new movie starring Angelina Jolie and an unlikely character to...

In re-imagining the infamous evil queen who curses an innocent girl, "Maleficent" is very much a cautionary tale for modern times. It essentially begs the question — are you sure it was the shrew that needed taming?
It stars a wickedly good...

What authorities said was an attack by Vitalii Sediuk on Brad Pitt on the red carpet of the "Maleficent" premiere in Hollywood obscured the larger point of Wednesday's proceedings: the premiere itself.
Hundreds of fans waited in 80-degree...

APRIL 30
The M Word
At a struggling Los Angeles TV station, a children's show actress leads her female colleagues as new management arrives from New York on a cost-cutting mission. With Tanna Frederick, Michael Imperioli and Gregory Harrison. Written...

"There is evil in this world, and hatred, and revenge." So warns Angelina Jolie, playing the title character in a new trailer for Disney's coming fantasy "Maleficent."
But is Maleficent herself — she of the horned headdress,...

The evil sorceress from "Sleeping Beauty" looks pretty evil indeed.
The new poster for Angelina Jolie in "Maleficent" has been unveiled, and the actress doesn't look like someone you'd have over for Thanksgiving supper.
In a black,...

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6
A Case of You
A young writer smitten with the barista at his local coffee shop scours her Facebook profile for intel and tries to transform himself into her dream guy. With Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood. Written by Long. Directed by...

Escape From Tomorrow
Available on VOD beginning Oct. 11
A sensation when it debuted at Sundance this year, writer-director Randy Moore's film stars Roy Abramsohn as a stressed-out family man who endures a harrowing, surreal day at an amusement park,...

Four days after "Elysium" hit theaters, the science fiction movie's backers announced Tuesday that they have greenlighted director Neill Blomkamp's next film, "Chappie."
Sony Pictures Entertainment and MRC will once again co-produce...

Despite its title, "Elysium" is no promised land.
Expectations were high that the film starring Matt Damon would carry the flag for thoughtful, big-budget films that care about more than profits. But it has ended up as something of a...

"Europa Report" is a Grade A version of a B picture, a streamlined science fiction story that smartly tells a familiar tale without breaking the bank.
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